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Media/Diet (September '25)
Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo + long weekend in Philadelphia
Sep 8 • 
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August 2025

The Standard Model
On trying to write poetry as a recovering physicist
Aug 25 • 
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Media/Diet (August '25)
How to host your mom in NYC (but she's more fun than you and already loves the city)
Aug 11 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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July 2025

Order-Disorder Transition
On eating, order, cleanliness and control
Jul 28 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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Media/Diet (July '25)
Black Bag + silken tofu for the summer
Jul 14 • 
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June 2025

Extra: Fluid Dynamics II
A yearly Pride conversation with my best friend
Jun 30 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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alex
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Probability Density
On being trans in 2025
Jun 23 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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Media/Diet (June '25)
The Bends by Radiohead + red wine mushroom stew
Jun 9 • 
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May 2025

Carnot's Theorem
On riding the subway as an aspiring New Yorker
May 26 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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Media/Diet (May '25)
Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood + how to brew coffee the Croatian way
May 12 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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April 2025

Quantum Supremacy
On spending time with thousands of physicists as quantum theory turns 100 years old
Apr 28 • 
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Extra: What Do We Mean When We Say That Baking is an Exact Science?
On a phrase that does a disservice to both baking and science
Apr 21 • 
Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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